Example sentences of "had one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , Father McKenna said he had one last question to ask . |
| 2 | ‘ Some had one and some had the other . ’ |
| 3 | The Nimbus was undamaged but the K8 had one wing severed at about half-span as well as other serious damage . |
| 4 | One officer who had worked with him during his short stay in the force laughingly told colleagues that this ‘ college man ’ definitely had one arrest — because he would willingly recall details of his big moment for anyone who was prepared to listen . |
| 5 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , said he had one weapon with which to beat inflation : the interest rate . |
| 6 | In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier . |
| 7 | He had One Man shows at many London galleries including the Leicester Galleries and the Belgrave and in Manchester , Dublin , New York , Montreal and Winnipeg . |
| 8 | The two Frenchmen had one thing in common . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a very shaky area and we had one or two incidents with tribes who buzzed a few spears at us ’ , said Mark as he inhaled deeply on another cigarette . |
| 10 | He had one side of him , in those days , which suspected modern science because of its part in the process of industrialization , and its philistine attitude , as he supposed , to literature . |
| 11 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 12 | They had one thing on their minds and she was it . |
| 13 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 14 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 15 | By 1989 monetarism was attracting more support , as Britain had one of the highest inflation figures in the European Community ( 8 per cent in April 1989 ) . |
| 16 | Soon Maggie held a golden ball of thread and St Margaret had one end of it firmly attached to her finger . |
| 17 | Just before leaving the consulting room she knew that she had one thing left to do and it was important . |
| 18 | ‘ He had one of his quiverful with him when I found Hatton this morning . |
| 19 | The Hatton flat and the Cullam house had one thing in common , an automatic washing machine . |
| 20 | Almost invariably , barns had one threshing floor , with bays for housing the crops opening off it ( Fig 37 and Plate 1 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ From the age of sixteen onwards , I had one single ambition , from which I never wavered , in the prosecution of which I spent every ounce I could , on which I really and deliberately staked my whole contentment ; and I recognise myself as having unmistakeably failed in it . ’ |
| 22 | The room had one long table with half a dozen chairs ranged around it . |
| 23 | It 's easy to forget that it 's over eight years since Pepsi and Shirlie first sang with Wham ! and Shirlie still laughs at the memories : ‘ When we started out I had one dress and I wore it to every photo session — I could n't afford any more ! ’ |
| 24 | Emma Samms ( above ) even had one leg chopped off to get into her bridal gown |
| 25 | ‘ In the three months before the accident , he had one sole day off . |
| 26 | Victims of modern faxitis , drowning in paper and worrying that the writing will disappear by 2000 AD had one reassurance . |
| 27 | In Hawaii , he was chairman of the government review board which examined the impact of industry on the environment — a job in which he had one specific victory . |
| 28 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 29 | After breaks of 222 , 213 and 116 in the afternoon his best was 73 in the evening but he held off Dagley , who had one of 252 . |
| 30 | Until recently , competitors only had one chance to win because it was only open to men in their first year after indenture to the Company of Watermen and Lightermen — so winning the buckled shoes , white stockings , silver badge and scull cap which complete the scarlet raiment is no mean feat . |